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The James Beard Foundation today announced finalists for its 2013 James Beard Awards in 59 categories, ranging from restaurants and chefs to cookbook authors and media.

In the Best Chef: South category, Palm Beach’s Clay Conley of Buccan, who earlier this winter had been honored with a prestigious Beard Award semifinalist nod for the second consecutive year, did not advance to the finalist circle.

Of the 20 semifinalists in the 2013 Best Chef: South category—which covers Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Puerto Rico—four chefs from New Orleans and one from Miami Beach were named as finalists during a press luncheon earlier today [More]